Opening Ceremony
Tuesday 10th September 2002 - Page 4
It
was an innovative, colourful and very artistic display of dancing, decorations and horses!
In Spain the broodmares also take part in a traditional display - it
is a very moving and quite unusual way to see horses perform. The mares all have a
bell around their necks and are joined together by a long string threaded through their
collars. They are worked in formation by a rider on a stallion in front of the line,
thisis called a cobra. In some movements another rider assistant from behind.
The stallions seemed to enjoy this job !!!